Recent ALTER-EU publications and correspondence

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Help us getting our message across! Take part in Commission's consultation on the Transparency Register

Publication date: 
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Author: 
ALTER-EU

Although the online questionnaire reads more like a user's satisfaction survey, than a consultation about the register's effectiveness in bringing transparency, there is one good opportunity to give feedback in this respect. Help ALTER-EU to get real transparency!

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PDF icon ALTER-EU's consultation response.pdf
Document types: 
briefings & info sheets
Campaign: 
Full lobby transparency now!
 

Who’s driving the agenda at DG Enterprise and Industry?

Publication date: 
Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Author: 
Lead author: Yiorgos Vassalos Co-authors: Athena Christofi, Natacha Cingotti, Timo Lange, Rachel Tansey

The Commission’s advisory groups provide expert advice on specific issues, which is often used to shape new policies or even to form the backbone of new legislation. The Commission’s reliance on advice from big business within these groups has previously been criticised, with MEPs urging action to ensure more balance.

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PDF icon DGENTR-driving.pdf
Document types: 
reports & studies
Campaign: 
Balanced expert groups
 

Who’s driving the agenda at DG Enterprise and Industry?

Publication date: 
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Author: 
The Austrian Federal Chamber of Labour, the Austrian Trade Union Federation and ALTER-EU

ALTER-EU will present its new report providing an analysis of DG Enterprise and Industry’s expert groups on July 10. The report shows how corporate interests dominate a significant proportion of expert groups, while other interests groups, such as civil society groups, labour unions and small and medium enterprises are hardly heard.

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PDF icon Invitation_expertgroup_presslaunch.pdf
Document types: 
briefings & info sheets
Campaign: 
Balanced expert groups
 

Dodgy Data: time to fix the EU Transparency Register

Publication date: 
Monday, June 25, 2012
Author: 
ALTER-EU

One year after the introduction of the European Union’s Transparency Register, analysis by the Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation (ALTER-EU) suggests that although the number of lobbies now registered has increased, far too many active EU lobby players are still not on the list.

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PDF icon Dodgy-data.pdf
Document types: 
reports & studies
Campaign: 
Full lobby transparency now!
 

Newsletter - 8 - New ALTER-EU member Comhlámh, 'Revolving Door' campaign update, and more

Publication date: 
Friday, June 1, 2012
Author: 

Our website got a face lift (see the result here), we had several letter actions (see the ALTER-EU news below) and together with the Civil Society Contact Group we published the new 'Transparency Register' guidelines, with which organisations can make a truly transparent registration in the European Parliament and European Commission's register.

Document types: 
briefings & info sheets
Campaign: 
Stronger ethics regulation
 

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